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(Washington Post) Interesting Don't expect Obama to make a decision on Afghanistan before Thanksgiving: He's too busy pondering whether he wants cornbread stuffing or regular stuffing   (washingtonpost.com) divider line 235
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jwa007 [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 09:42:03 AM  
Cornbread for sure. That other stuffing is slimy and yucky. Shiat only a northerner could enjoy.

 
WaltzingMathilda [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 09:57:26 AM  
Funny thing about the brain, it's capable of pondering more than one, in fact many, thoughts at the same time. Maybe not for subby, but for most of us anyway.

 
robomonkster 2009-11-20 10:19:41 AM  
Wharrgobble?

 
DarthBrooks [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 10:29:48 AM  
Does Stove Top come in arugula flavor?

 
pandabear [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 10:45:52 AM  
Pondering? No, he has a staff that focus tests the public image outcome of the President eating one stuffing or the other, and then decides that both will be served, and the President will have a little of each, while emphasizing that he only put on a little gravy because he's trying to eat a more healthy diet.

 
TwistedIvory [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 10:47:44 AM  
robomonkster: Wharrgobble?

I LOLed

 
hillbillypharmacist [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 10:52:19 AM  
You could just mix bread and cornbread like we do. Turns out quite well.

 
Mordant [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 10:57:30 AM  
robomonkster: Wharrgobble?

nice

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 10:58:28 AM  
Regular. With sausage.

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:01:03 AM  
Cornbread is nasty. That is all.

 
gustakooka [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:02:28 AM  
Regular stuffing cooking in the turkey. With NO MEAT.

/thanksgiving rocks

 
WaltzingMathilda [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:03:07 AM  
GAT_00: Cornbread is nasty. That is all.

Get out. Go home and think long and hard about what you've said.

 
jwa007 [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:03:51 AM  
GAT_00: Cornbread is nasty. That is all.

You ain't from around here, are you?

 
Racht [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:03:56 AM  
GAT_00: Cornbread is nasty. That is all.

Nancy Pelosi would get a better reception here in the south than you would saying that.

 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:09:08 AM  
GAT_00: Cornbread is nasty. That is all.

That's it. You're dead to me.

 
ne2d [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:09:52 AM  
robomonkster: Wharrgobble?

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St_Francis_P [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:10:44 AM  
I'm not sure if I should be outraged or hungry now.

 
DarthBrooks [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:12:31 AM  
GAT_00: Cornbread is nasty. That is all.

You fail to appreciate cornbread. Your argument is invalid.

Good day to you, sir. I SAID GOOD DAY!!

 
King Something 2009-11-20 11:16:35 AM  
farm3.static.flickr.com

 
7of7 [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:21:23 AM  
I don't know about cornbread stuffing but sometimes when it's cold out there's nothing better than making a full pan of cornbread and then eating the whole thing with a mug of hot chocolate.

 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:29:13 AM  
Dammit, now I want cornbread.

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:29:34 AM  
WHY ISN'T OBAMA RUSHING INTO THIS??? WHY??? WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!

 
DarthBrooks [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:35:22 AM  
ecmoRandomNumbers: Dammit, now I want cornbread.

Why do we *always* agree on food?

 
Sybarite [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:38:50 AM  
img692.imageshack.us

 
Doctor Funkenstein [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-20 11:58:41 AM  
jwa007: Cornbread for sure. That other stuffing is slimy and yucky. Shiat only a northerner could enjoy.

Them's fighting words. Stuffing is delicious. So is cornbread. I'm an equal opportunity fatass.

 
BooBoo23 [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 12:09:20 PM  
hillbillypharmacist: You could just mix bread and cornbread like we do. Turns out quite well.

That's the way we make it. Delicious.

 
CitizenTed [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 12:14:07 PM  
I, for one, am sick and tired of this president carefully gathering data prior to making a monumental decision. This sort of reasoned deliberation is for liberal losers. We need a leader who knee-jerks every decision with little concern about the consequences.

 
Mordant [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 12:23:56 PM  
CitizenTed: I, for one, am sick and tired of this president carefully gathering data prior to making a monumental decision. This sort of reasoned deliberation is for liberal losers. We need a leader who knee-jerks every decision with little concern about the consequences.

You obviously don't have to sit on 2 different sets of articles slamming the decision whichever way it goes while you wait to see which one you have to run with.

 
DarnoKonrad 2009-11-20 12:33:56 PM  
Corn bread stuffing?

 
RockIsDead 2009-11-20 12:34:14 PM  
Gullible suckers.

And yet you naive clueless adolescent jackasses still conjure up lame excuses, "glad he's so thoughtful!".

HAHAHAH!

Oh, the blatant ignorance and stupidity of youth!

 
3_Butt_Cheeks [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 12:35:38 PM  
I have been informed a few threads back that mentioning Obama hasn't made a decision on Afghanistan makes you a SOCIOPATH.

/True.

 
Shaggy_C 2009-11-20 12:35:50 PM  
People are dying while the man dithers.

It's time to withdraw American troops on an agreed-to timetable. Let the corrupt Karzai deal with his own insurrection.

 
The Homer Tax 2009-11-20 12:35:54 PM  
I have a serious question for anyone who has a real issue with the President taking his time on this one, and actually wants to answer the question...

At the risk of "but but bush"-ing here, what's the hurry? What has changed? Bush did absolutely nothing in Afghanistan for 7 years, why must somethin be done nownownownownow?

 
DarnoKonrad 2009-11-20 12:37:21 PM  
Shaggy_C: People are dying while the man dithers.

It's time to withdraw American troops on an agreed-to timetable. Let the corrupt Karzai deal with his own insurrection.


People will die no matter what he does.

We should get the fark out though.

 
Arnold T Pants 2009-11-20 12:37:52 PM  
They don't want people discussing over Thanksgiving how Mr. Change is sending tens of thousands of additional troops to war.

 
Whodat 2009-11-20 12:39:35 PM  
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Yu gonna eat yo cornbread??

 
3_Butt_Cheeks [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 12:40:44 PM  
The Homer Tax: I have a serious question for anyone who has a real issue with the President taking his time on this one, and actually wants to answer the question...

At the risk of "but but bush"-ing here, what's the hurry? What has changed? Bush did absolutely nothing in Afghanistan for 7 years, why must somethin be done nownownownownow?


The hurry for me is simple. The man in charge of military operations there says is was VITAL to have new troops sent there immediately. This of course was months ago....

I am leaning towards his expertise in this matter, along with the reports of increased casualties, reports of increasing Taliban and A.Q., and the security situation in Pakistan and that border area as good reasons. That and NATO is kinda sitting on their hands until we make up our minds, not knowing how to plan ahead because they don't know how many troops we will have committed to the theater.

 
Quadraton [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 12:40:51 PM  
Um...okay. Consider me a naive Canadian boy who doesn't understand much about Southern traditions, but why the vitriol over cornbread? I think my mom made it once when I was a kid, and I hated it. Why is mentioning that out loud likely to get my ass kicked in the deep South? I mean, I'm gathering it's a regional food with possibly some tradition involved, but I don't go lashing out at people who say they don't like maple syrup (as if there is such a thing).

 
mynameismark 2009-11-20 12:41:01 PM  
Shaggy_C: People are dying while the man dithers.

It's time to withdraw American troops on an agreed-to timetable. Let the corrupt Karzai deal with his own insurrection.



So sending more people for them to target will stop every death?

/wow, did you really just go public with that retarded POV?

 
hillbillypharmacist [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 12:42:58 PM  
DarnoKonrad: Corn bread stuffing?

It's called dressing, your sorry son of a b*tch!

 
Nemo's Brother 2009-11-20 12:43:28 PM  
Obama wanted us to rush a healthcare bill through by July but will take months to determine if he should listen to his appointed general or not.

The truth is that Obama is sacrificing troops in an attempt to appease the leftist base on healthcare. If he pisses them off by sending in more troops, they may be less supportive on healthcare. If he decreases the troops, the moderates will abandone him. He is using GIs lives for politics.

 
NuclearPenguins 2009-11-20 12:45:50 PM  
hillbillypharmacist: DarnoKonrad: Corn bread stuffing?

It's called dressing, your sorry son of a b*tch!


Not in civilized parts of the country. It is stuffing. It will always be stuffing.

/Also it's Soda, not pop, or tonic, or whatever else you heathens call it.

 
Saiga410 2009-11-20 12:47:13 PM  
Put me down for voting on regular stuffing in bird but baked afterwards to crispify it a bit.

 
Funk Brothers 2009-11-20 12:47:36 PM  
Whodat: Yu gonna eat yo cornbread??

What a good movie, Life.

Seriously, I like regular stuffing. Too bad we can't have fried chicken on Thanksgiving.

 
Corn_Fed 2009-11-20 12:47:54 PM  
Southerners like their cornbread "dressing" almost as much as they like their slaves.

 
Dracolich 2009-11-20 12:48:14 PM  
because rash decision making was so much better...

Perhaps telling everyone what you're doing or that you are doing something isn't the best way of keeping a secret. I love transparency in government but doing that with the military is going overboard.

 
DarnoKonrad 2009-11-20 12:49:44 PM  
3_Butt_Cheeks: The man in charge of military operations there says is was VITAL to have new troops sent there immediately.

That's not really what McCrystal said. He said if we want to stabilize the country we need several thousand more troops.

The question is if this action is out best interest. If we asked McCrystal how many troops it would take to successfully invade and occupy China, he would say he'd need several million troops.

That's not the same thing as saying we need to do that.

 
halfof33 2009-11-20 12:50:05 PM  
Oh, cornbread stuffing sounds good.

Kind of a moot point though, as I will be deep frying my turkey next thursday

 
Petey4335 2009-11-20 12:50:43 PM  
3_Butt_Cheeks: The Homer Tax: I have a serious question for anyone who has a real issue with the President taking his time on this one, and actually wants to answer the question...

At the risk of "but but bush"-ing here, what's the hurry? What has changed? Bush did absolutely nothing in Afghanistan for 7 years, why must somethin be done nownownownownow?

The hurry for me is simple. The man in charge of military operations there says is was VITAL to have new troops sent there immediately. This of course was months ago....

I am leaning towards his expertise in this matter, along with the reports of increased casualties, reports of increasing Taliban and A.Q., and the security situation in Pakistan and that border area as good reasons. That and NATO is kinda sitting on their hands until we make up our minds, not knowing how to plan ahead because they don't know how many troops we will have committed to the theater.



It is my understanding we are getting information about the corrupt Karzai government from this guy: Karl Eikenberry (new window)

(you know another, albiet former, lieutenant-general who is actually on the ground)

It might be we are just going to leave...

 
3_Butt_Cheeks [TotalFark] 2009-11-20 12:51:56 PM  
Dracolich: because rash decision making was so much better...

When does a decision go from "rash" to oh-so-smart?

Anyone could just as easily say (after 2 years of waiting) the next day "That was RASH. The conditions on the ground are changing."

There is no metric for that. However, there is a metric for is the timeframe the commanding General said he needed additional troops. That time has passed.

 
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